About Nora

Nora Brooks is a native of Union County, North Carolina. She holds a BS in the Administration of Criminal Justice from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a NC teaching
license from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She retired from Union County Public Schools in July, 2011 after 26 years teaching AP US History, Civil War History and Revolutionary
War History. Nora has been presenting historical drama since 1996. Her first character was Mildred Childe Lee, the youngest daughter of General Robert. E. Lee. At the invitation of a colleague,
she developed the character of Anna Morrison Jackson, widow of the famous Stonewall Jackson in 2001. In 2009, Nora added Julia Dent Grant to the performance family as a way of sharing the
northern side of the war.

Nora has performed throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and eastern Tennessee for many different groups and interests. Some of the organizations include the Museum of the Confederacy, Stratford Hall Plantation
(birthplace of Robert E. Lee), Duke University Adult Education
Program, and the Raleigh Civil War Roundtable. She has also performed for a wide array of heritage groups, Sons of Confederate Veterans Camps, the Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of
the American Revolution. Two of her favorite performances were for a wedding reception and an international convention of mechanical engineers!

Nora enjoys history in general, but particularly the period of the War Between the States and World War II. Her
father was a navy veteran of the Pacific Theater and she loves to honor the heroes of the Greatest Generation.

Nora was selected the Teacher of the Year for Sun Valley High School in 1992 and was honored by North Carolina State
University as one of the Inspirational Teachers in 2009, an honor conferred through the recommendation of former students.

Nora is a 21 year veteran of the Civil War Institute of Gettysburg College. She was chosen as a St. Andrews University
(Scotland) Schoolteacher Fellow in 2002 and was also selected as a Horace Mann-Lincoln Fellow in 2008. Nora was the second recipient of the T. Harry Gatton Award given by the Raleigh Civil War
Roundtable in 2009. She has also received the Jefferson Davis Medal from the North Carolina Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Zebulon Vance Award from the North Carolina Sons of
Confederate Veterans.

Performance History:

Created first person historical presentation on the life of Robert E. Lee

Character name: Mildred Lee (youngest Lee daughter)

Performance career: 1996 to present

Performances given: (partial list)

Richmond and Lexington, Virginia

Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina

Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina

Atlanta, Georgia

April,
2003 special performance for the Museum of the Confederacy

Richmond, Virginia

January,
2000/2007 special performance Lee Chapel,

Washingtonand Lee University, Lexington, Virginia

January
2008 Speaker at Lee-Jackson Day commemoration sponsored by the

Virginia
Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters

of the Confederacy—Virginia State House, Richmond, VA

May 2008 and 2009 Speaker for the Confederate Memorial Day Ceremony,

Richmond, VA

April
2008Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke Universitypresented at